Echoes of Unfinished Narratives
This collection offers a unique journey into the heart of storytelling. Each piece is an incomplete narrative fragment, a moment captured mid-scene, or a page torn from a larger book. They invite your imagination to fill in the gaps, pondering what came before and envisioning what might happen next.
This project stands as an experiment at the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence. It explores how digital tools can act as a partner in the writing process, shaping new forms of storytelling and enhancing digital literacy in a collaborative environment.
This collection spans genres from vibrant Young Adult Contemporary and Historical Fiction to intense Thriller, Sports Fiction, and deep Psychological Drama. This installment features the work of Tony Eetak, Eva Suluk, and Jamie F. Bell.
We invite you to explore these unfinished tales not just as a reader, but as a co-creator, completing the narrative in your own mind and shaping its ultimate direction.
Today’s Unfinished Tales and Short Stories
Highlighting Young Adult Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Thriller, and Psychological Drama, alongside distinctive categories like Horror and Family Saga, this initiative promotes digital literacy. We employ creative technology to develop unique short stories, pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted narrative and transforming the world of publishing.
The Last Service Station
Category: Sports Fiction | Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
The interior of a cramped team van smelling of damp gear and stale snacks, moving through a rainy landscape.
Rust-Tinted Prairie’s Reach
Author: Tony Eetak | Category: Horror | Genre: Historical Fiction
The old Ford Pinto droned, a persistent, metallic hum that had become the rhythmic pulse of their escape. Outside, the vast flatness of Manitoba was slowly contorting, growing teeth of rock and forest as they pushed deeper into Ontario. Spring’s damp breath coated the windows, blurring the sparse, skeletal birches that flickered past like ghostly sentinels, and an insidious chill, not just from the weather, had begun to seep into the car’s threadbare upholstery.
Summer’s Sinking Breath
Author: Eva Suluk | Category: Family Saga | Genre: Thriller
The oppressive heat of a late summer afternoon draped itself over Blackwood Grange like a shroud. Ivy, thick and ravenous, throttled the ancient stone, its tendrils reaching into fractured window panes, drawing shadows across rooms that had known little light for decades. A silence, heavy and humid, clung to the air, broken only by the distant, lethargic hum of unseen insects and the occasional, mournful creak of settling timber. Jeff’s arrival was not heralded by fanfare, merely the crunch of his tyres on the loose gravel drive, a sound absorbed almost entirely by the suffocating density of the overgrown grounds.
A Summer Reclamation
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Military Sci-Fi | Genre: Sports Fiction
The air in the recreation hall’s unused basement hung thick, a heavy curtain of summer humidity pressed down by the accumulated years of disuse. It smelled of damp concrete, forgotten wood, and the faint, sweet decay of time itself. A single bare bulb, strung precariously from a high beam, cast a jaundiced, weak light that barely pushed back the gloom, leaving pockets of absolute dark shivering in the corners. Dust motes, thick as tiny gnats, danced in the weak light, stirred by the smallest movement, giving the entire space a shimmering, unsettled quality. This was not a friendly dark, but one that swallowed sound, making every creak of the old building above feel distant and muffled.
Those Distant Shores
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Psychological Drama | Genre: Psychological Drama
The lingering chill of a prolonged spring permeated the recreation hall’s foundations, seeping into the forgotten basement where the air hung heavy with a heavy gauze of airborne dust and disuse. Outside, a pale, anemic sun struggled to warm the thawing permafrost of Colony 7, its light filtered through the thick, atmospheric processors that kept their distant world breathable. Here, beneath the grey, utilitarian surface, three young adults moved with a slow, deliberate cadence, their task a quiet rebellion against the overwhelming apathy that seemed to settle on everything these days.
About the Project
By design, these stories have no beginning and no end. Many stories are fictional, but many others are not. They are snapshots from worlds that never fully exist, inviting you to imagine what comes before and what happens next. We had fun exploring this project, and hope you will too.
The Unfinished Tales and Short Stories collection is an experimental, creative research project by The Arts Incubator Winnipeg and the Art Borups Corners Storytelling clubs. Each chapter is a unique interdisciplinary arts and narrative storytelling experiment, born from a collaboration between artists and applied AI researchers, designed to explore the boundaries of creative writing, automation, and storytelling. The project was made possible with funding and support from the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects program and the Government of Ontario.
